There are all indications that Ghana might be grooming its homegrown insurgency in the name of Western Togoland. What appeared to be a joke by a few disgruntled people is assuming alarming proportions; if what the so-called Western Togoland insurgents inflicted on some parts of Volta Region in late...
The President of the Canada Ghana Chamber of Commerce (CGCC) has observed the need for the Ghana government to help the informal sector to become more productive in order to benefit from the Continental Free Trade agreement.
Mr. Alexander Nortey says, “The informal sector is too large, and government needs...
The 2019 Banking Industry Fraud Report and a front-page banner publication in Business & Financial Times (B&FT) on Monday, August 17, 2020 titled “BoG orders police vetting of bank staff to curtail fraud” has precipitated a research into the issue and the publication of this article.
The Business & Financial...
From the mid-2000s onwards, the digital revolution raised hopes of democratic transformation and strengthening in Africa. But it hasn’t quite turned out like that. Now, almost a decade after the “Arab Spring”, techno-optimism has given way to techno-pessimism.
African leaders have proved able to blunt the transformative potential of smart...
As Ivory Coast prepares to collect a record cocoa crop, the market is bracing for two key unknowns: the risk of political unrest disrupting supplies and the demand hit from COVID-19.
Bigger crops in West Africa would add to a global surplus at a time when consumption is under pressure...
Director of Human Resource at Vodafone Ghana, Hannah Ashiokai Akrong, has advised leaders of organisations to adopt the hybrid approach of working remotely within COVID-19 and beyond. According to her, globally COVID-19 has influenced how organizations work, increasingly compelled companies to mobilize technology to aid work.
“The pandemic has impacted...
The role of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the edifice of the Ghanaian financial sub-sector; and their contribution to socio-economic development and growth of the country cannot be overemphasised. In recent years, the Ghanaian economy has witnessed the formal establishment of several microfinance institutions. Connoisseurs of activities in the financial...
The partnership between the United Kingdom and Ghana has secured funding and expertise to build new major road system creating jobs and building expertise across Ghana.
The £80.3m project, between BHM and Ministry of Roads and Highways, would see the building of a major road between Tema and Aflao which...
The tireless effort of Business and Financial Times correspondent Edward Adjei Frimpong in promoting the growth and development of the tourism industry, through his write-ups has been acknowledged by the industry regulator, Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA).
The GTA has crowned him as the 2019 Best Tourism Journalist in Bono,...
The Organization of African Unity, now African Union (AU), under Kwame Nkrumah’s leadership conceived an African Common Market programme. Nkrumah envisioned it to be an economic community of African countries pulling their production and trade to a common advantage.
That, to Nkrumah, was the epitome of true independence. The idea...